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Gang members jailed for random attack on insurance broker outside City bar

Four members of a notorious gang were jailed for a total of 39 years for a random street attack on an insurance broker and his friend.

Two men, both 26, escaped with their lives after they were targeted as they headed home from a City nightclub.

The gang inflicted life-threatening knife injuries on the men in the attack which is believed to have been triggered by a trivial slight.

One needed reconstructive surgery and 42 stitches and has been left with a permanent five-inch scar across his face.

The other man suffered a gash across the top of his head and a spleen injury that left him unable to work for two months.

The attack was mounted by members of the Kensal Green Boys gang, which had once included Santre Sanchez Gayle who was jailed for life in 2011 for shooting a young mother dead of her doorstep in Hackney.

Gayle, then 15 and believed to be Britain’s youngest contract killer, was paid just £200 for the execution of Gulistan Subasi.

The KGB group was a successor to the Kensal Green Tribe, which was responsible for the 2006 murder of City lawyer Tom ap Rhys Price.

Pierre Alcendor, 25, his brother Dean, 28, and Duane John-Baptiste, 27, admitted their part in the latest attack and were each jailed for 10 years at the Old Bailey.

Julian McLeod, 33, received nine years for what Judge Paul Worsley described as an “unprovoked, cowardly and mindless violent attack.”

He added: “For no reason at all you set upon these two young men in the street at night armed with a knife.

Scene: The pair were leaving Apt bar in the City when they were attacked Picture: Google Streetview
“Neither man had done anything at all to deserve or attract your attention.”

A fifth gang member involved in the attack remains at large and is wanted by police.

The victims were heading back from a birthday party at Apt Bar, near Bank Tube station, in the early hours last April.

As they walked home along nearby King Street, one was struck across the head and fell to the floor before both were attacked with at least one knife.

The attackers then left their victims for dead and fled the scene in two cars.

City of London detectives were able to track the vehicles using CCTV and linked the gang members to the stabbing.

DI Doug Blackwood said: “These men came into the City and violently and randomly, launched a violent assault which left one young man needing reconstructive surgery on his face.”

Pierre and Dean Alcendor, both of Northolt, Middlesex; McLeod, of All Kenand John-Baptise, both of Kensal Rise, all admitted two counts of wounding with intent.